Posted by David McCall on 05/21/07 16:00

"E Bentley" <eddy.bentley@(delete.re.no.spam)virgin.net> wrote in message
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> nobody special wrote:
>> The USB video converters are generally rubbish, a firewire based one
>> is better. Some folks like the ADS pyro line of products, but most
>> folks I know swear by the Canopus brand like the ADVC-200 and up.
>
> Thanks, Nobody.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but is "a firewire based one" like the lead I have
> which connects my digital camera to my computr's USB port, i.e. straight
> cable with USB plug at one end and a tiny D-shaped plug at the other?
>
> Is there a firewire video converter available which will connect my
> camcorder (with its separate traditional V & A output sockets) to a USB
> port?
>
> Eddy.
>
Firewire is not USB. While some of the connectors used for firewire
look similar to USB connectors, they are not the same.

The spec for speed of USB looks similar, but USB is much
more dependant on the computer's processor. If the processor
wanders off to do something else while you are doing a transfer
via the USB port, you may lose some of your data.

Firewire (IEEE 1394) is much more robust. All of the DV cameras
use IEEE 1394 for transfer to and from the computer. Most computers
come with built-in IEEE 1394 ports these days.

David

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